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Friday, July 23, 2010

Mo' Glitter

At the same time as I ordered the All That Jazz trio from Nordstrom, I also added the other two new glitters from Deborah Lippmann to my cart. They didn't ship at the same time, and for a while I was worried that I wouldn't get them at all, as there were reports on MakeupAlley of pre-orders for them being cancelled or lost, but earlier this week mine showed up.

Let's start with the one that I should like because it is my favorite color, purple: Bad Romance. It looks pretty in the bottle, with small and hex red violet glitter packed in a mysterious dark base.

I put on two coats, and skipped the topcoat, which means it looks especially bumpy in the photos to follow.

The dark base is not so mysterious after all; it's black. As far as I'm concerned, the glitter is not dense enough to cover enough of the black, or the black is too dense and covers up too much of the glitter. I look at this and see Halloween, which might be the next time I wear this one. Guess I'm just not much of a rocker chick.

The other glitter, Across the Universe, is getting a lot of love on nail blogs, which I now completely understand. It's gorgeous, blue and green glitter in a navy jelly base. I used three thin coats and some spots could have used one more, but even so, I couldn't stop looking at it and was very reluctant to take it off do to more swatching (imagine if I'd put a base coat on and shined it up—I might still be staring at it now).

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*screams with joy* I can't wait for my lippmanns to arrive.. I was so excited about Bad Romance... but it isn't as good as Across the Universe. But how good is Across the Universe?? Seriously??? Oh, that is so cool.. thanks for giving me so many ideas re layering.. hehehe

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I live near Detroit with my husband and many Helmers full of nail polish. I keep an old school online journal at hatontop.com and started a nail polish blog to justify my lacquer collection. I can be contacted at the.karend (at) gmail.com or thekarend on MUA.